[tied] Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> Me:
> > I can see *iddem reduced, even if irregularly, to /idem/ but the
> > other way is logically problematic.
>
> Jens:
> > Blame that on the speakers of the language. Resegmentation is not
> > uncommon in documented linguistic change. Why ban it from

prehistory?

>
> I haven't and I'm glad we agree. So *id-de:mum > *id-dem was

resegmented

> to *i-dem because 'resegmentation is not uncommon'.

I have not accepted "*id-de:mum". Please don't make it appear that I
have. I won't be quoted for that.

Jens